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Wednesday, June 21. 1972
University Summer Kansan
The Other Side of Main Street
By MARY PITMAN
Kansas Staff Writer
Trees will some day pleasantly interrupt the main drag of Lawrence, Massachusetts St. Lawrence Park. Beautiful but needy needs plant trees on New Hampshire Street, adjacent to Massachusetts St.
Weeds sprawl out of the sidewalks on New Hampshire. A visitor driving in downtown Charleston finds an AHPampa Hampstead sees a face of the city
very different from the one on the main drag.
On New Hampshire he sees the rear ends of thriving businesses, the need for construction demolition, parking lots and the abandoned buildings of former warehouses.
No beautification is planned for streets adjacent to downtown Massachusetts St. Don Schaake said Friday. Schaake, who held a developer's development Plan in Lawnfield said that sufficient funds were
simply not available for further improvements.
A lone tiger lily curls from the weed-filed yard of one house marked "Condemned" on New York streets. From it is an abandoned Goodyard station piled with storage. Facing New Hampshire are windows, soaped or boarded; other such abandoned businesses.
At the old empty Firestone station down the street, the door of the ladies' room still yawns
open. Inside spiders lainy hang
himself through the building's street
from across the street in 1950s
vintage, resplendent with
fins; waits with a group of well-
known spiders.
The City of Lawrence will soon complete extensive improvements on the downtown area on Massachusetts St—new parking lots, new landscaping, new sidewalks, new street lights, and new curbing. The streets adjacent to Massachusetts lack attention.
Photos by John Reed
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